Re: [HOE] Two weapons fighting

["Jeff Shoffner" <shoffner@esper.com>]

Huh.  Here I am, someone that has fenced for several years, & coached a few,
& it never occurred to me about the flexibility of foils & epees.  Guess
it's because I don't consider them to be 'weapons' per se, but practice
weapons.  Still, I guess it would be quite easy to sharpen one into a lethal
item.  And as Lenny Zimmermann has said, they are VERY flexible.....

Jeff S



>The strength of these swords would vary strictly on the quality of
manufacture. Most of them were only owned by the wealthy and nobility who
could afford to have them made to a high quality (for that time). But I
would find the argument of strength for that time to be mute when we talk
about now or, more importantly for HoE, the future. A modern steel "rapier",
of any of the above varieties, could be quite resistant to breakage
depending on manufacture method. There are cheap blades out there that are
strictly decorative that would not only break with relative ease, but would
never hold and edge to be of use anyway. And there are those of modern
manufacture that, despite their seeming solidity, could, with enough force,
be bent back upon themselves without breaking. It's all in the manufacturing
process.
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